langemand wrote:I am focusing my efforts on the stuff that is not easy to accomplish in other ways. The fault codes you can read with one of the lite versions of Torque, so that is not my highest priority.

If someone can tell me how (using CAN bus communication) to accomplish things like turning off chimes, setting climate schedule, etc, I will prioritize coding it. I cannot do it without knowing how.

I would really like to see are the two servicing commands:

1) Retract electric parking brake when changing the rear pads.

2) Run the electric water pump after changing the coolant to bleed the system.

I haven't seen anyone list these CAN commands. They are standard ones that the Kia diagnostic system sends, so maybe someone can capture them from a friendly dealership? I think that's how we got most of the CAN commands. The parking brake one may even be common to ICE Souls.

warren55 wrote:... Yesterday I went for a long freeway drive ... I was a little concerned that during that drive my SOH seemed to drop from 107% to 103.7%. That seemed a little drastic to me.

langemand wrote:... I believe the drop came due to multiple top speed driving stints with fast-charging in rapid sequence, on the German Autobahn during the summer heat.

Normally the BMS updates the deterioration counters during charging, but occasionally we see extreme jumps in the counters during very fast driving. I believe this is linked to 'Battery Stress'.

JejuSoul wrote:...My conclusion is that driving very fast, or just fast up a steep hill causes high battery stress which can degrade the battery much faster than normal. This is not a problem if you only do it occasionally...

I should have mentioned that I charged to 100% just before I left that morning, and the weather was quite cool and rainy. It was a long drive for me, but not really a long drive; only about 50 miles before we stopped for breakfast and an L2 charge at the casino. The total drive for the day was 107 miles as I recall, with about 60 miles of that being freeway miles with a max. speed of 60 mph. I really don't think the battery ever had a chance to get over 60 degrees Fahrenheit! I know the outside temp. never got over 50.

-Warren - I'm assuming your battery stress wasn't caused by really high speeds, but by normal freeway speed up a long, steep incline. Am guessing you drove up from California into the Sierras.The degradation seen during battery stress isn't heat related but power related.

The codes for using Torque Pro can be found by clicking the link in the website icon under my user name on the left.

Only KW-902 ELM327 v 1.5 is supported, v2.1 does not work. Some testers have reported partial success with other ELM327 v1.5 clones, but they are unsupported, so you cannot expect the app to work with those.

Note: The app does not work with Hyunday Kona electric, Kia e-Niro and Kia e-Soul (the new electric Soul)!

Request: If you use this new app version to record your car AC-charging, driving, and/or fast-charging (preferably all 3 in one .csv-file); I would love it if you email me the recorded .csv-file , so I can include it for the "Play Demo data" replay I have sold my Soul EV, so I am unable to record e.g. VMCU and OBC data for the demo myself, and I dislike that these pages are blank during demo-replay.